The new horror/thriller “Longlegs” has added Maika Monroe to a solid that already contains the legendary Nicholas Cage. Directed by Osgood Perkins (“Gretel & Hansel”), the movie will head to the European Film Market later this month on the lookout for each home and worldwide distribution. Filming is already underway in Vancouver, Canada.
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According to a press launch from financier C2 Motion Picture Group, “Longlegs” facilities on FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) who finds herself investigating an “elusive” serial killer (Cage). The launch notes, “As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.”
Monroe was one of many breakout stars of the seminal status horror movie “It Follows” in 2014. She most just lately starred in Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher,” which debuted on the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Her different credit embody “Honey Boy,” “Greta,” “Independence Day: Resurgence” and “Hot Summer Nights.”
An Oscar winner for his function in “Leaving Las Vegas,” Cage has just lately had a profession resurgence with acclaimed performances in “Pig” and the meta-comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” the place he performed an alternate model of himself. The “Con-Air” star will seem as Dracula in Chris McKay’s “Reinfeld” for Universal Pictures this April. Cage and his manufacturing firm, Saturn Films, are additionally receiving producing credit score on “Longlegs.”
C2 Motion Picture Group is presently in post-production on Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start” starring Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch and Evan Katz’s “Azrael,” a high-concept action-horror movie starring Samara Weaving.